Inquisit, the strategic education partner of leading healthcare group purchasing organization Amerinet, is offering a seven-part audio conference series focusing on OSHA and CMS regulatory issues for ambulatory surgery centers, according to an Amerinet news release.
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Five states — Georgia, Indiana, Nebraska, Nevada and Wyoming — have opted out of running their own high-risk insurance pools, according to a report by the New York Times.
The U.S. Department of Justice has opened a civil investigation into possible anticompetitive behaviors by Boston-based Partners HealthCare System and issued letters requesting information related to the system's contracting procedures with health insurers to Partners and Massachusetts' three largest insurance…
The following is a list of outstanding administrators at surgery centers across the country. To read an administrator's complete profile, please click on his or her name.
A federal judge in a California district court has denied a motion to dismiss antitrust claims by a California physician group and two physicians against Children's Hospital Central California in Madera, Calif., and two other medical practices, according to court…
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At the request of the American College of Radiology, House Energy & Commerce Chair Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), Ways & Means Committee Chair Sandy Levin (D-Mich.) and Ways & Means Subcommittee on Health Chair Pete Stark (D-Calif.) recently called on the…
The health reform law will shift from making payments of hospitals for reporting quality indicators to reducing payments to hospitals with the highest rates of medical errors and infections, according to a report by CNN Money.
Physician investors will move ahead with construction of Kearney (Neb.) Regional Medical Center, following the collapse of a proposed partnership with nearby Good Samaritan Hospital, according to two reports by the Kearney Hub.
Rebecca Craig, RN, CASC (Harmony Surgery Center, Ft. Collins, Colo.). Ms. Craig is CEO of Harmony Surgery Center, a multi-specialty ASC that performs around 900 cases monthly. The center opened in Aug. 2000 and has four ORs and three procedure…
Mary Ann Cooney, RN (Riverside Outpatient Surgery Center, Columbus, Ohio). Ms. Cooney is the administrator of Riverside Outpatient Surgery Center in Columbus, Ohio, a multi-specialty facility with six ORs and one minor procedure room. ROSC performed over 6,150 cases in…